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Posted by Todd Wilson [75.27.226.131] on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 15:14:00 :
In Reply to: That is one way of looking at it... posted by Eric B. [76.204.93.42] on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 11:40:46 :
I will say though with health insurance the costs over the course of 20 years has went sky high although wages havent went up like insurance. I would be interested in hearing what has created such a high cost of insurance now compared to 20 years ago or even 10 years ago. We watch our insurance claims and the price of a test or precedure is one price and what the insurance pays is another and often that is very low compared to the actual price! Say a MRI costs 800$ if you wrote a check to them yet health insurance would only pay 400$ for the MRI. Why do we have 2 different prices?! I see this all the time on our statements. Wife works at the hospital. She can buy various drugs with a special employee deal. Like a 500 count Tylenol bottle for 2$. Yet 2 tylenol to a patient in the hospital is 20$. I saw this after the birth of my daughter and I started getting statements in the mail pending insurance claim payments! All this snow balls and creates a high cost of insurance that some simply cannot afford.
Take your dog to the Vet. Get a 8$ supply of antibiotics for the dog. He takes the same thing humans take yet its 40$ at the drug store.
I still am hoping for my Yobama Cummins Ram! I am entitled to it!
Todd